8oz Ancho Chili Dried Peppers

Excellent chilies peppers use them in my Christmas tamales this year. Great tasting sauce very fresh chili pods, darken the sauce to make it richer, smoky taste, not dry and crunchy like the ones in the store.

1. These ancho chilies are half the price of those in my grocery store. 2. More important, they taste better. the ones from the store are dry with a paper like texture. These are more leathery. They have a stronger smell. 3. The heat level is where it's supposed to be, tingly, not overpowering. I remove the stems and seeds, heat them in a cast iron pan for a few seconds, simmer them in pot with beef stock for a half hour then put them in a blender. it makes a great base for chili and a lot of other dishes.

I couldn’t find anchos in my local store for a while so purchased these ones, but while I was waiting for them to arrive my store restocked so I grabbed a pack of the supermarket brand and when the 1400s Anchos arrived I did a taste test to see if the extra cost on these was worth it. I can say with a resounding YES that the 1400s anchos blew the store brand out of the water! Right out of the pack the1400s Anchos are far softer and more pliable making it easier to deseed them without dry fragments and seeds flying all over your kitchen. Aroma wise these have an intense wonderful rich dried fruit smell compared to the store brand which had much less aroma, and were a little sour smelling. Flavor wise the 1400s were sweet-sour ending in sweet earthiness with a rich full flavor. The store brand had very little sweetness just a strong sour flavor. Hands down the 1400s Ancho chiles were superior in every way making the price difference worth every penny! No more grocery store Anchos for me! If this review has been helpful to you, you might like to check out my profile. I post a lot of cookbook, ingredient and kitchen tool reviews. Happy cooking (and eating)

Nice and flexible, ready for long term proper storage for use as needed. I was worried that they’d be dry, but I’m very pleased with the product

Nice and meaty, great flavor. They were fresh and easy to work with.

Very good quality

Always fresh and delicious Chiles.

This is bomb! Instead of buying dried ancho, I bought this instead. It needs about a night in the food dehydrator before hitting the spice grinder but ends up producing a lot of powder for far less than you can purchase elsewhere. I use it for chipotle copy-cat recipes.